Day: December 13, 2017

Alexei Navalny presented his political programme Alexei Navalny proposes to exempt small business from taxes, to liquidate the Pension Fund, create a special service to combat corruption and to cancel the call. Respondents RBC experts assessed the main provisions of the program policies. The founder of the Fund of struggle against corruption Alexei Navalny, a year after the announcement of his intentions to run for President announced the program, which he plans to go to the polls, if he registers as a candidate. The CEC head Ella Pamfilova previously warned that the politician will be able to register after conviction. Economy Navalny proposed to eliminate the Pension Fund of Russia and on its basis to create “the world’s largest Fund-investor”, by analogy with the Norwegian sovereign Fund Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG). The latter invests oil and gas revenues the Norwegian government assets around the world. “Sounds like populism, but

Gordon declined to name the party, which will run MOSCOW, 13 Dec — RIA Novosti. Journalist Catherine Gordon said he plans to run as a candidate for the post of President of the Russian Federation from the party, but refused to call it. Regular elections of the President of Russia will be held in March 2018, the campaign is supposed to start in December 2017. The stage of registration of candidates for presidential elections will be preceded by a stage of advancement. “The party was found… Is an existing registered party,” said Gordon, the radio station “Echo of Moscow” on Wednesday, refusing to call it. She also believes that a previously declared their desire to participate in presidential elections “to the CEC will not come.” “I’ll go there (to the CEC), and we are doing this rather tedious routine procedure (collection of documents),” said the journalist. Last week, acting President

The state Duma adopted the law on the informal use of the coat of arms of Russia MOSCOW, 13 Dec — RIA Novosti. The state Duma adopted in the third and final reading a bill that provides people and organizations a respectful use of the state emblem of the Russian Federation in the informal purposes. The authors of the initiative by the speaker of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin and the head of the Committee on legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov. At present, the use of the state emblem of the Russian Federation is possible only in cases specified by law. If the state emblem is used in other cases and in ways not relevant to the rules of its official use, it may pursue administrative and criminal liability. In fact, citizens and organizations do not have a legal possibility of informal use of the state emblem, said earlier the Deputy. According

The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova © Mikhail Japaridze/TASS MOSCOW, December 13. /TASS/. Statements by the President of the United States Donald trump about the US victory over the terrorists in Syria are unfounded and illogical. This was stated on Wednesday by the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. “These statements are endless in their illogical, unfounded and variability, she said. – Statements of official representatives of government agencies of the USA are changing endlessly until the opposite.” “Only one question is stated for some of his political activity, to attract voters, or that the official position of the United States?” – she added.

Speaker of the state Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin © Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, December 13. /TASS/. The state Duma before the end of the year ratifies submitted by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin the agreement with Syria about the expansion of the centre of logistics of the Navy of the Russian Federation in the area of the Syrian port of Tartus. It was declared to journalists on Wednesday, the Chairman of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin. Putin on Wednesday submitted to the state Duma the agreement with Syria about the expansion of the territory of point of logistics Russian Navy in Tartus for 49 years. Russia may place this database at the same time to 11 warships. “We will do everything in order to ratify the agreement before the end of 2017”, – said Volodin. “Our military has protected civilians from the terrorist threat and,